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Young Men and the Creation of Civic Christianity in Urban Methodist Churches, 1880-1914
This article examines the formation and discourse of the Epworth League, established by the Methodist Church as a lay organization intended to keep adolescent boys in the church. While the Epworth League was ostensibly open to both men and women, its real aim was to masculinize a church which was perceived to be dominated by a female membership and female-led organizations. This article explores when and how this construction of youthful piety became embedded within Methodism and the impact it had on the shape of church governance. Moreover, it argues that social Christianity, which gained a foothold through the mechanism of the League was an essentially male-gendered discourse.Cet article traite de la formation et du discours de la Ligue Epworth, une organisation laĂŻque crĂ©Ă©e par lâĂglise mĂ©thodiste dans le but de garder les adolescents Ă lâĂ©glise. Alors que la Ligue Epworth Ă©tait soi-disant ouverte aux hommes et aux femmes, son vĂ©ritable but Ă©tait de masculiniser une Ăglise perçue comme dominĂ©e par des fidĂšles fĂ©minines et par des organismes dirigĂ©s par des femmes. Lâarticle Ă©tudie Ă quel moment et de quelle façon cette Ă©dification de la piĂ©tĂ© des jeunes sâest ancrĂ©e dans le mĂ©thodisme et lâinfluence quâelle a eue sur la structure de gouvernance de lâĂglise. De plus, elle soutient que le christianisme social, qui sâest rĂ©pandu grĂące Ă la Ligue, tenait un discours masculin
"On the threshold of manhood": Working-Class Religion and Domesticity in Victorian Britain and Canada
Recent studies indicate that records of church membership are unreliable as a
barometer to measure the religiosity of Victorian working-class people. Specifically
working-class forms of religious practice, when combined with working-class views
of masculinity, tended to privilege the domestic space rather than church membership
as the primary site of Christian experience. The religious diary and family correspondence
of Frederick and Fanny Brigden, both working-class Londoners,
reveal Brigdenâs own version of domesticated religiosity and his conception of
respectable working-class masculinity. His life-long obsession with temperance,
thrift, self-help, and religion was neither imposed by nor borrowed from the values
of the dominant classes, but grew directly from his experience of the inequalities and
vicissitudes of working-class life. As the Brigdensâ example shows, working-class
familiesâ conceptions of domesticity did not merely mimic those of bourgeois ruling
elites, but flowed from their own interpretations of religion and their own strategies
for survival.De récentes études indiquent que les registres des adhérents à une église ne sont pas
une mesure fiable de la religiosité de la classe ouvriÚre victorienne. Plus particuliÚrement,
les formes de la pratique religieuse ouvriĂšre avaient tendance, lorsque
combinĂ©es aux visĂ©es ouvriĂšres de la masculinitĂ©, Ă privilĂ©gier lâespace domestique
plutĂŽt que lâappartenance Ă lâĂ©glise comme lieu principal de lâexpĂ©rience chrĂ©tienne.
Le journal personnel religieux et la correspondance familiale de Frederick et
Fanny Brigden, deux Londoniens de la classe ouvriÚre, témoignent de la version
propre Ă Brigden de la religiositĂ© domestiquĂ©e et de sa conception dâune masculinitĂ©
ouvriĂšre respectable. Son obsession de toujours pour la tempĂ©rance, lâĂ©pargne,
la dĂ©brouillardise et la religion nâĂ©tait ni imposĂ©e par les valeurs des classes dominantes
ni empruntée à celles-ci. Non, elle émanait directement de son expérience
des inégalités et des vicissitudes de la vie de la classe ouvriÚre. Comme le montre
lâexemple de Brigden, la conception que nourrissait les familles de la classe
ouvriĂšre de la domesticitĂ© ne faisait pas quâimiter celle des Ă©lites bourgeoises
dirigeantes, mais elle découlait de leur propre interprétation de la religion et de
leurs propres stratégies de survie
Modalities of Social Authority: Suggesting an Interface for Religious and Social History
The dominant approaches in Canadian social history have focused, for the most
part, upon categories of region, class formation, and womenâs experience (more
recently informed by theories of gender). Because of the priorities placed upon these
âprimary identitiesâ, religious experience, both in its social and personal aspects,
has tended to form a âneutralâ backdrop to the more active dimensions of secular
political and social thought. We thus propose two interdependent analytical frameworks
through which to explore religious forms and practices as integral elements
of social formation: the ongoing function of religious institutions as an apparatus of
social regulation; and the concomitant search for cultural authority (and political
power) by which both groups and institutions sought to articulate a particular vision
of the social order.Dans lâhistoire sociale canadienne, les approches dominantes ont mis principalement
lâaccent sur les catĂ©gories de la rĂ©gion, de la formation des classes et de
lâexpĂ©rience des femmes (plus rĂ©cemment Ă©clairĂ©e par les thĂ©ories des rapports
hommes-femmes). En raison de la priorité accordée à ces « identités primaires »,
lâexpĂ©rience religieuse, tant dans sa manifestation sociale que personnelle, a eu tendance
à former une toile de fond « neutre » aux dimensions plus actives de la pensée
politique et sociale sĂ©culaire. Nous proposons donc deux cadres dâanalyse interdĂ©pendants
par lesquels explorer les formes et pratiques religieuses Ă titre dâĂ©lĂ©ments
intĂ©graux de la formation sociale : la fonction permanente dâappareil de
régulation sociale des institutions religieuses; et la recherche concomitante
dâautoritĂ© culturelle (et de pouvoir politique) par laquelle tant les groupes que les
institutions ont cherchĂ© Ă articuler une vision particuliĂšre de lâordre social
Re University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association and University of Saskatchewan
On behalf of Professor Vandervort, The Association, pursuant to article 31.5.5 of the 1991-2 Collective Agreement, contests the Presidentâs recommendation to the Board of Governors that she be dismissed, on the ground that reasons for dismissal do not exist
Re University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association and University of Saskatchewan
This is the determination of an Arbitration Committee established to hear and determine whether or not the grounds for the President\u27s recommendation for the dismissal of Lucinda Vandervort, a tenured Associate Professor, are established and, if established, whether or not they constitute good and sufficient cause for dismissal. The Committee has already issued an interim decision that, even if established, the grounds for the President\u27s recommendation for dismissal do not constitute good and sufficient cause for dismissal and Professor Vandervort has been fully reinstated pending this determination. We advised the parties of our conclusion to that effect after the University had put in its case, in the hope that time and money would be saved. It suffices to say that it did not have that effect
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